Re: Oracle news article

Question #2 - not only is the question "is it worth it to pay for Oracle",
but "can I do it cheaper by hiring an independent contractor to implement
it myself?"

Jon

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Mike Mascari wrote:

> Interesting. I'm not sure if he gets it. Oracle does have a ton of
> features that PostgreSQL *currently* lacks:
>
> Table spaces
> Logical Schemas
> System Privileges
> Advanced Object Privileges (such as Column privileges)
> Profiles
> Auditing
> Parallel Query
> Distributed Query,
> ...
>
> and a ton of interfaces and tools, like Pro*Cobol, Pro*Fortran,
> SQL*Loader, etc. It also does a better job in handling inter-object
> dependencies.
>
> But the question remains:
>
> For any given project, are the above features worth the typical Oracle
> licensing costs?
>
> For some, yes they absolutely are. But for many, many others, they
> aren't. And as time goes on, the PostgreSQL feature list has grown at an
> accelerating pace.
>
> Just my humble opinion,
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
>
> "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" wrote:
> >
> > http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid13_gci562454,00.html
> >
> > Check out the question "Do you find open-source database vendors to be a threat to Oracle?"
> >
> > cheers,
> > thalis
>
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